But anyone in the world who bought an iPhone 3G in the last six months without being told by a friend or neighbor that Apple would almost certainly be releasing a new model in June was illiterate and friendless.
A comment by Glenn_Fleishman in response to the The Macalope trashing ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes’ comments on Apple.
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Check out this very cool wood-cased iPod mini. Even, apparently, the click wheel cover is mm-thick wood.
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I wish I had known about this before.
To watch web videos without the comments and crap, just drag the button below to your browser’s bookmarks bar. On any of the supported video pages, click the bookmark button to watch in peace.
You can then make short URLs too, to send the quietube version to your friends. Easy as.
We support YouTube, BBC iPlayer, Viddler, and Vimeo, with more to come…
quietube
↑ Drag this button to your toolbar (Don’t click it!)
or use this Greasemonkey Script – with thanks to Andrew Harrison
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The girl, only 10 years old, died a few hours after watching the movie.
From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.
After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.
The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.
via Pixar grants girl’s dying wish with home viewing of ‘Up’ .
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Because Anthony is a wuss, and pulled the post (probably because Voda shook a stick at him), I pulled this from Google’s cache:
We usually don’t report on rumours here at MacTalk , but a trusted source has brought this to our attention this evening: Vodafone has sent out an email to retail staff stating that the 16GB iPhone has been marked as “End of Life” by Brightpoint, their supplier of iPhones.
Why is this interesting to us? Well it just adds further fuel to the fire that there will be a new iPhone very, very soon. What mixes us up is the fact the 8GB isn’t EOL, but the 16GB is. Perhaps a 32GB and 8GB model will be around, the 8GB being the value option for the price conscious set.
via MacTalk Australia.
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Seen in the car park at the local drug store.
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For those who have been using Gmail (and/or Google Apps) and have been putting up with Google’s rather poor (or odd) implenation of the IMAP protocol, this will come as good news.
Google Labs have added a feature that enables you to fine-tune how IMAP is handled.
To enable this feature, go to Settings » Labs in Gmail and enable the Advanced IMAP Controls Lab. Read the official Google blog post for full details.
Via: Lucid Design Blog.
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“Scientists are making the first attempts to understand spiritual experience — and what happens in the brains and bodies of people who believe they connect with the divine.”
“The field is called “neurotheology,” and although it is new, it’s drawing prominent researchers in the U.S. and Canada. Scientists have found that the brains of people who spend untold hours in prayer and meditation are different.”
“The more you focus on something — whether that’s math or auto racing or football or God — the more that becomes your reality, the more it becomes written into the neural connections of your brain.”
via NPR.
Posted in Spirituality & Health.
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Taking vintage typewriters and turning them into sculptures without using an kind of glue, welding or soldering may sound impossible, but not for Jeremy Mayer who has created these amazing typewriter sculptures by using cold assembly methods.
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I guess someone had to ask…
Cute introductions be damned. Has anyone ever had sex in space? Go ahead, tell me the NASA folks themselves never wanted to know what it would be like, or whether it would even be possible.
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